PETERBOROUGH, Ont. – The body of an Owen Sound woman who drowned when the Jeep she was riding in plunged through the ice of Eels Lake was recovered Monday afternoon.

OPP divers found the body shortly after 2 a.m., a police spokesman said.

Divers had been searching since 11 a.m. after cutting holes in the lake ice about 150 feet from shore in an area where the water is 35 to 40 feet deep, police said.

Police said they would not release the name of the 30-year-old woman until the body has been recovered and formally identified and family has been notified.

The woman’s brother, a 29-year-old Bancroft man, has been charged with impaired driving causing death, driving a motor vehicle with a blood/alcohol level exceeding the legal limit causing death and dangerous driving causing death.

The driver, his sister and an 18-year-old man were “joy riding” near their cottage at 12:15 a.m. when the driver took the vehicle out onto the ice of the nearby lake and began spinning circles, police said.

The jeep broke through the ice and began to sink, police said.

The two men escaped but the woman was unable to get out as the vehicle sank. The temperature at the time would have been about -6 C.

Police who arrived after the accident were concerned about unsafe ice conditions and postponed the search until the arrival of the OPP Underwater Search and Recovery Unit.

The shoreline is at the end of a private cottage road and news media were not being allowed on the road. Many of the cottages in the secluded area are trailers.

Eels Lake is 90 kilometres north of Peterborough, east of Silent Lake Provincial Park.

The driver was held in custody and scheduled to appear in court Monday for a bail hearing.